Oprah, a parade gone bad, MySpace suicide, and the writer’s strike in Hollywood.

How about somebody paying attention to this:

BASRA, Iraq, Dec 5 (Reuters) – Women in Iraq’s southern city of Basra are living in fear. More than 40 have been killed and their bodies dumped in the streets in the past five months for behaviour deemed un-Islamic, the city’s police chief says.

A warning scrawled in red on a wall threatens any woman who wears makeup or appears in public without an Islamic headscarf with dire punishment. Read More…